The Last Duel
Subtitle: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France
Publisher: Broadway
Published: September 13, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780767914178
Subjects: Western Europe - General; Medieval; France - History; Medieval World History (Circa 450 - Circa 1450); History; History - General History; History: World; Europe - France; Legal History; History / Europe / Western
First sentence: In the fourteenth century it took several months for knights and pilgrims to travel from Paris or Rome to the Holy Land, and a year or more for friars and traders to journey across Europe and all the way to China along the Silk Road.